The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-03-10
Henry ward Raechar Dead.

On Friday night last, Henry Ward
Beecher, the great Brooklyn Divine, was
stricken with appoplexy, and cied on Tues.
day morning The attack was very sud.
den, and frola it the patient never rallied
but gradually weakened until the end
came.
MR., BEEcHER's CAREER.
Henry Ward Beecher was born, at Iitchfield
Conn, on. jane 9th, 1873. He was the fourth
son OF Rev. Lyman Beeeher and Roxana Foote
beeenel,, and brother OF Mrs Harriet Beecher
stowe. the talented author of Uncle Toms
Saoldl' and and other works that have made her
Yong Beeeher graduated from Amherst coz ,s5.ia
4eses n5itssachusetts. i'll 1854. He studied theoIo-
~ a w tths seminary, pear Cfncfnnat1 un-
ger MS Iathar He first took the Dnlpit as a
Presbyterian minister, at Laurer eettnTg IVA 81
II 1887, ana TWO years later he removed to IN
diahapoiis, where for eight years he fIlad =
pulpit Of the same denomination A'N' ''
4 small Isolated town, such as INDIANAPOLIS
Eiss "a n d2al, cou.d not long contain BeecIer-
u1anded him. and h ear opened to The SIaoS
inss ofthe Plymouth Congregational church 81
Brooklyn. lie settled down in the fitV IF
Churches in 1917, and his anchor never si,o ~.
slipped from Plymouth church. sioo
when he first assembled the Plymouth nuIni+
he was rising 10 the zenith OF his life His ace
was tlifty-four years, but for man of his Won
derful physical and mental powers the MONDAY
sun was bound TO remain long in the heavens
Plymouth church has " seating capacity of
5000, and its enrolled memberships over 5000
The attendance at the services from other
Brooklyn churches and from New York was
far in excess of the regular congregation,
Beecher was man of action and a man of the
world, as We'll as "a clergyman He possessed
untlr1ng energy, and the days and hours he
spentaWay from his pulpit were devoted to the
lecture platform, to advancing his political
l0eas, ana TO penning contributions for the re-
!lgioas aud periodical press and for publication
IN book form. He combined within himself
the attributes of preacher, teacher politieian
author ana lecturer. He claimed also to emu
1ale old horace Greeley as farmer.
FOR nearly year during his theological
course ne edited religious weekly en- titled the
Clhclnnau io@5'HQt. While in Indiana he was
the edttorof the Farmer and Gardener He con-
tinued his connection with these Journals as n
ana Hnaily severed it only to make more eX- l
tensiye and laborious connections with local
publications.
Abolition doctrines began to be discussed
ABOUT the time of his advent in the sister city,
he soon oecame known as an unflinching foe
70 slavery. In his sermons, as well as his lee
lures and writings, he proclaimed that man
Was never to be made chattel for man. He was
also an earnest advocate of temperance and
reforms in the administration of public affairs
a lew days ago he made his last appearance on
r public platform on the occasion of the citi-
lens' meeting at Chickering Hall in support of
The High License bill
Beecher has been q Republican since the par
y was founded, and never Wavered in his allie
glance till the great national battle was fought
between Cleveland and Blaine in 1854 He on
posed Blaine, although he was the regular Re-
publican nominee for the presidency, He smoke
or Cleveland from his pulpit and from public
}oIntnS one of his sons collector of Port Town
end, in Alaska.